Lazer/Wulf

Add Date: October 21 

Artist: Lazer/Wulf 

Album: The Beast of Left and Right 

Label: Retro Futurist 

Genre: Rock, progressive metal 

Comments: From The A.V. Club: "The concept behind the prog-metal trio [Lazer/Wulf]'s new album, The Beast of Left and Right, is more than ambitious; it's kind of insane. Guitarist Bryan Aiken, bassist Sean Peiffer, and drummer Brad Rice have constructed an entire, full-length work of technical yet melodic metal that forms a palindrome. Yes, it's the same backward and forward, in a thematic sense; rather than just flipping around half an album, running it backward, and calling it a perfect palindrome, the band has intricately, imaginatively reversed and synched riffs, lyrics, and other elements of each song before synching them up to their mirror-image counterparts. The Beast of Left and Right isn't overwhelmed by its structure; it's enhanced by it, to the point where Lazer/Wulf has pushed itself into brain-twisting new territory as songwriters and instrumentalists." 

Recommended Tracks: 2, 4, 5, 9

DNP: none